The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Although the tribal fighters hired by the Silver Moon Tribe are just ordinary fighters in each tribe, because the truly powerful fighters have been digested by the tribe itself, only those fighters that the tribe looks down upon will leave their tribe and run to The most prosperous and prosperous southern holy mountain surrounds the city to live.

However, even so, these fighters are all qualified fighters. The quality may be mediocre, but the quantity is enough. Normally, even if they are defeated, it is absolutely impossible for the entire army to be wiped out.

Therefore, when the news spread, everyone thought that this was a rumor deliberately fabricated by the Huorong tribe in order to hit the morale of the Yinyue tribe.

However, after the follow-up news came, everyone was silent for a moment, because the annihilation of the mercenary army was a fact, not a rumor. As for the reason for the annihilation, everyone thought it was the luck of the mercenary army. Too bad, just before preparing to attack the city, a wave of mutated monsters broke out, and the mercenary army directly fought against the wave of mutated monsters in the wild.

The result can be imagined, without a city wall to defend against waves of mutated monster attacks, let alone a mercenary army composed of ordinary soldiers, even if an army formed by those who have mastered extraordinary powers, it may be difficult to fight head-on against those tides. mutant monsters.

In the end, the army hired by the Silvermoon Tribe at a large price did not cause any damage to the Sobanth City of the Tinder Tribe, and died in the jungle outside the Sobanth City.

Although, after the news spread, some people thought that the city of Sobanth would not be rescued, and did not let those tribal warriors enter the city to escape the tide of mutant monsters. The approach was too cruel, and they indirectly accused the Tinder tribe of not treating themselves as a southern tribe at all. Members of the alliance, that's why they watched the warriors of these southern tribes die under the attack of mutant monsters one by one.

This statement has won the approval of many people. After all, the Huorong Tribe offended many tribes when they joined the Southern Tribal Alliance. Over the years, they have fallen out with neighboring tribes because of some interests. In the past, it was because of the support of the Silver Moon Tribe. This makes people unable to find a chance to attack. Now that the Huorong tribe has fallen out with the Yinyue tribe and lost this backer, those hostile tribes will naturally not let go of any opportunity to make trouble.

In addition to those tribes that were hostile in the past, some tribes attacked the Tinder tribe because their tribal fighters joined the mercenary army and died in the wave of mutant monsters.

They don't really value those tribal fighters, they just feel that the death of those fighters of their own tribe is too shameful. If they died in a frontal battle with the Tinder tribe, they might not have any complaints, but they are blocked by the Tinder tribe. They died outside the city in the tide of mutated monsters. In their eyes, this kind of death was a disgrace, not only a disgrace to the warriors, but also a disgrace to the tribe.

However, not all the tribes agree with the Huorong tribe's statement that it is too cruel. They feel that since the purpose of the mercenary group going outside Sobanth City is to attack Sobanth City, then they and the Tinder tribe are enemies, Sobanth Naturally, the city has no obligation to save its enemies, not to mention that if the mercenary group is put into the city, if the mercenary group suddenly attacks and seizes the city, Sobanth City will have no resistance at all, so Sobanth City's approach is The most reasonable course of action.

However, no matter what they discuss, they always revolve around the annihilation of the entire mercenary group, what will happen to the Silvermoon tribe next, and how the Tinder tribe will use this news to expand their advantages, etc. Although the entire mercenary group is annihilated this time, However, the vast majority of tribes in the Southern Tribal Alliance still believe that the Silvermoon tribe will be the ultimate winner, because the Silvermoon tribe has not received any losses except for some benefits.

Although in these discussions, some people mentioned that this wave of mutated monsters appeared strangely, perhaps it was caused by some method in Sobanth City of the Tinder tribe, which wanted to use the wave of mutated monsters to destroy the invading mercenary army, but This statement was quickly drowned out in other discussions, and no one paid attention.

Because almost everyone knows that mutated monsters are uncontrollable, even the shamans of the Holy Mountain can only infer the number and approximate location of mutated monsters hidden in the forest by observing the state of various creatures around them, and then infer the mutation The qualifying period of the monster wave.

If the Tinder Tribe could really accurately control the time and place when the mutated monsters came out, and even control the number of mutant monsters, then the Tinder Tribe would not be in the status it is now. It may have conquered the entire northern and southern tribal alliance and become a wasteland The unique king of the tribe, it is not difficult to conquer the civilized world outside the wasteland.

However, compared to the thoughts of the tribal people, both Leo and Sylvia, who heard the relevant news, agreed that the appearance of this wave of mutant monsters was really related to Sobanth, but neither of them was very sure about Sobanth. How Si made it happen, but their hunch told them that the Lore Society might have played some role in this.

This incident did not have much impact on Leo and Silvia. The only impact was that the price of weapons seemed to have been raised a lot because of this war, and the big shaman of the Silver Moon tribe who was resident in the holy mountain also personally I came to the office of the Dodd Group and met with Sylvia, the purpose is to get better weapons from Sylvia, it seems that they are going to do a big job.

Sylvia didn't agree to the other party right away, not because she didn't want to make the deal, but because she was temporarily out of stock.

Although the weapons and equipment produced from the New Porto headquarters have already begun to be delivered, it will take at least a month to deliver them to the Southern Tribal Alliance. This is because there is no one blocking the road, and there are no accidents. If there is another accident on the road, then this time must be pushed back.

And now the various goods stored in the warehouse of the Dodd Group in the southern holy mountain are only enough to complete the weapon-for-grain transaction with those farming tribes, and it is impossible to provide an additional batch of weapons and equipment. To the Silvermoon Tribe.

Seeing this situation, the great shaman of the Silvermoon Tribe had no choice but to go to other weapon suppliers, although the weapons provided by those people could not compare with the weapons of the Dodd Group in terms of quality, and most of them They are all cold weapons and old machine crossbows, but they are better than nothing, at least they can meet the minimum needs of tribal fighters.

"I think this is a bit strange." After the Great Shaman of the Silver Moon Tribe left, Sylvia said to Leo with a serious face.

Leo thought for a while and confirmed, "Are you saying that the Southern Tribal Alliance has too much demand for weapons?"

Sylvia nodded and said: "Think about the contract we negotiated, plus the orders mentioned by the Silver Moon Tribe just now, these arms transactions are already the total arms transactions of the Southern Tribal Alliance in the past ten years , this is not counting the weapons trading volume of the Tinder tribe, the mixed-blood tribe and some other neutral tribes. If it is calculated in this way, it can be said that everyone in the entire Southern Tribal Alliance has at least two weapons in their hands. This is no longer the difference between the two tribes. There are skirmishes and small wars, and it's more like the entire Southern Confederation of Tribes is preparing for war."

Hearing this, Leo pondered for a moment and said, "Do you think this is the Southern Tribal Alliance using the conflict between the Silvermoon Tribe and the Huorong Tribe as a cover to secretly prepare to launch a big war?"

Sylvia nodded and said, "I kind of think so."

Leo frowned and said differently: "But the problem is that the Silvermoon Tribe and the Huelvet Tribe are not fake. The Southern Tribal Alliance is preparing for a foreign war under such circumstances. It seems..."

Sylvia interrupted Leo's words, and gave another guess: "What if the Southern Tribal Alliance is not launching an external war, but preparing for an internal war?"

Leo was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then thought about it carefully. Although he still thought that Sylvia's guess was wrong, he couldn't deny the possibility.

For a long time, there has been an idea of ​​nation-building within the Southern Tribal Alliance. This is mainly because the Northern Tribal Alliance has established several tribal-themed countries at the junction of countries such as Megalica. Although these countries are not very powerful, at best they are It can be regarded as a city-state, but the benefits are also visible to the naked eye. The biggest advantage is that the trade with the outside world will be carried out in the form of a country. The end result is much more profitable.

Like Sylvia's previous arms-for-food trade contracts with various farming tribes, if it is negotiated by a unified national agency instead of individual tribes holding each other back, then these farming tribes will eventually gain Li, definitely much bigger than it is now.

However, no matter how good the idea of ​​establishing a country is and how great the benefits are, it was still rejected by the vast majority of tribes in the Southern Tribal Alliance on the grounds of violating traditions and other reasons.

No one said that these tribes are conservative. After all, the foundation of the southern tribal alliance is to return to tradition. Obviously, if a country is really established, then the tribal traditions will naturally be impossible to talk about. In that case, it is better to re-merge into the north. tribal alliance.

It is precisely because of the core founding purpose of the Southern Tribal Alliance that Leo thinks that Sylvia's guess is wrong. In his opinion, at least before the real crisis that can affect the survival of the Southern Tribal Alliance appears, It is impossible for the southern tribal alliance to truly unite into one country.

Sylvia also seemed to have thought of the loopholes in her speculation, and instead of arguing with Leo, she imagined: "Could it be that some people think that the conflict between the Silver Moon Tribe and the Huorong Tribe is not big enough, and they want to make the conflict war Tribal wars that spread to other tribes, causing more casualties."

Leo didn't respond, but nodded slightly. Although this idea was a bit whimsical, it was much more reliable than the previous idea of ​​establishing a country.

But Leo still thinks it is unlikely, because as long as there is a holy mountain in the south, the various fights and conflicts in the southern tribal alliance will not develop into a big melee in the entire tribal alliance.

Leo and Sylvia didn't spend too much time on this question. They couldn't figure out the answer to this question, so they stopped thinking about it. After all, this matter has little to do with them. There is a civil war, and they have no plans to intervene. They will only stand in a neutral position and sell all kinds of weapons to both sides. No matter what the final situation is, they are all winners, but the winner's gains may vary.

Although neither Leo nor Sylvia planned to intervene in the affairs of the Southern Tribal Alliance, some people were unwilling to see Leo and Sylvia living so easily. They wanted to find something for them to do.

The Dodd Group's office in the Southern Tribal Alliance is not only engaged in large-scale arms and industrial product transactions, but also engaged in acquisitions and auctions, because people living in the wilderness can always inadvertently acquire a priceless item. For example, a tribal child once caught a golden insect and made a specimen of it. As a result, this golden insect is an insect that has been completely extinct in other continents and is also very rare in the wilderness. Not only It has a very high collection value, and it is also a material that must be used for a special ceremony.

In the end, this insect specimen was bought by the people from the Dodd Group auction house, and after being sent back to the headquarters, Sylvia gave it to an underground force as a gift, and harvested a lot of much-needed resources from that underground force.

Things like this kind of low-priced acquisitions and high returns abound, so Sylvia also attaches great importance to the auction of the wasteland, and the people sent to sit in the town are all well-informed transcendents. Although it belongs to the office in name, it is actually completely independent in power.

As in the past, the auction bought a gemstone, and Sylvia and Leo also saw the gemstone. They felt that the gemstone had no other value except for its beauty, so they put the gemstone in the auction house. Conduct an auction in exchange for other items of value to the Dodd Corporation.

As a result, at the auction, someone discovered that this gem turned out to be the holy stone in the temple of the Silver Moon Tribe. Although this holy stone has no abnormal power, it has other symbolic meanings. symbol.

After discovering this, the person who presided over the auction at that time was about to end the auction. No matter how dull people were, they would feel that this matter was a provocation to the Silver Moon Tribe.

But in the end, the Huorong Tribe bought the item before the auction ended, and delivered the bid item as if it had been prepared to complete the transaction, taking away the holy stone of the Silver Moon Tribe's temple.

When the news of the auction reached Sylvia and Leo, the great shaman of the Silvermoon Tribe also came directly to question the matter, and faced with the questioning, Sylvia did not explain and let Silver Get the big shaman of the Moon Tribe to get out, and then let the office issue an announcement not to provide any weapons and other resources to the Silver Moon Tribe, the Tinder Tribe, and all other tribes participating in this conflict.

After the announcement was made, she and Leo left the southern holy mountain, ignoring the announcement and causing disputes.